Labour party denies factional chairman’s membership

Embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, has described Tuesday’s purported special convention of the party, organised by some aggrieved leaders of the party as a “gathering of miscreants” saying the factional chairman Tayo Omotosho was never a member of the party.

Reacting at a news conference Tuesday in Abuja, Abdulsalam said the party’s constitution stipulates that only the National Chairman shall call for National Convention.

Abdulsalam said “the Labour Party has a procedure, to call for a National Executive meeting or convention, the National Chairman must direct for that. I have already written INEC that for sometime I will not likely call for NWC meeting, NEC or Convention which I have INEC acknowledgement letter with me.

“So, for some people to meet at a closed door, saying their holding convention is inappropriate. For you to call for a National Convention you must notify INEC within 21 days, and that was not done. Secondly, the man that is laying claim to be the new National Chairman is not a member of Labour Party.

“Though he came to contest election under the party sometimes ago but he never paid for nomination form or anything and since then after the election in 2015 we never saw him again.”

The party chairman however, revealed that his leadership will soon call for NEC meeting to deal frontally with the matter.

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